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VENICE
Most Famous People Born in Venice, Italy
- Notable people
- 2,075
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- Median birth year
- 1814
- Most distinctive
- Doge 444.3×
A thousand-year republic whose distinctive professions are still doges and patriarchs at literally hundreds of times the global rate. Venice's bench runs from Marco Polo through Vivaldi, Casanova, and Canaletto, and its 15th- through 17th-century share is the heaviest of any European city in the dataset — the great age of the Serenissima, when the city was simultaneously a trading empire, a papal election ground, and the printing capital of Europe. Almost a seventh of the bench is painters.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Venice during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Venice Is Known For
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Painter is Venice's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (263).
Venice over-indexes on doge — 444.3× the global rate.
Venice under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Venice's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Religion
- Other
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Vincenzo Coronelli
1650 - 1718
Gregorio Lazzarini
1657 - 1730
Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1652–1721)
1652 - 1721
Carlo Ruzzini
1653 - 1735
Antonio Molinari
1655 - 1704
Pietro Antonio Fiocco
1654 - 1714
Marc'Antonio Ziani
1653 - 1715
David Nieto
1654 - 1728
Niccolò Bambini
1651 - 1736
Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo
1658 - 1730
Giovanni Bonazza
1654 - 1736
Andrea Tirali
1657 - 1737
Niccolò Cassana
1659 - 1713
Giovanni Agostino Cassana
1658 - 1720
Francesco Alfieri
1650 - 1650
Francisco Leonardoni
1654 - 1711
Giorgio Cornaro (cardinal)
1658 - 1722
Luigi Priuli
1650 - 1720
Daniello Marco Dolfin
1653 - 1704
Simone Brentana
1656 - 1742
Girolamo Venier
1650 - 1735
Ruggiero Fedeli
1655 - 1722
Domenico Rossetti
1650 - 1736
Giovanni Francesco Bembo
1659 - 1720
Alessandro Bon (1654-1715)
1654 - 1715
Luigi Ruzzini
1658 - 1708
Stefano Cupilli
1659 - 1719
Marco Giustiniani (bishop of Torcello)
1655 - 1735
Ambrosio Bembo
1652 - 1705
Carlo Pisani
1655 - 1740
Francesco Trevisan
1658 - 1732